Astronomers have found more evidence that there is a massive ripple traveling through the Milky Way. They have found evidence that stars at the edge of the galactic disk are moving like people doing ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...

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You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Parts of the Milky Way’s spiral arms are visible at the top of the ... Gaia’s space observatory was capable of measuring stellar positions by way of the “extinction” of stars. In this case, ...

Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for stargazers to catch a glimpse of the band of billions of stars. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's ...